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Pluralistic Ignorance as a Contributing Factor to Concussion Underreporting
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Baugh, Christine M.; Foster, Craig A.; Johnson, Brian R.; D'Lauro, Christopher – Health Education & Behavior, 2022
Background: Concussion underreporting is endemic, and social norms are an established predictor of concussion reporting behavior. However, pluralistic ignorance--a situation in which most individuals in a group hold the belief that their peers' views differ from their own, despite views actually being similar--has not been studied in this context.…
Descriptors: Head Injuries, Disclosure, Reports, Beliefs
Engaging Teammates in the Promotion of Concussion Help Seeking
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Kroshus, Emily; Garnett, Bernice R.; Baugh, Christine M.; Calzo, Jerel P. – Health Education & Behavior, 2016
Concussion underreporting contributes to the substantial public health burden of concussions from sport. Teammates may be able to play an important role in encouraging injury identification and help seeking. This study assessed whether there was an association between beliefs about the consequences of continued play with a concussion and…
Descriptors: Head Injuries, Help Seeking, Athletic Coaches, College Athletics
Concussion Education in U.S. Collegiate Sport: What Is Happening and What Do Athletes Want?
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Kroshus, Emily; Baugh, Christine M. – Health Education & Behavior, 2016
Concussion education for athletes has the potential to play a role in reducing the health burden of concussions from sport by modifying individual risk-related behaviors. In U.S. collegiate sport, decisions about content and delivery of concussion education are left up to the individual institution. This may result in a high degree of variability…
Descriptors: Neurological Impairments, Health Education, College Athletics, College Students
Pilot Randomized Evaluation of Publically Available Concussion Education Materials: Evidence of a Possible Negative Effect
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Kroshus, Emily; Baugh, Christine M.; Hawrilenko, Matt; Daneshvar, Daniel H. – Health Education & Behavior, 2015
Many states and sports leagues are instituting concussion policies aimed at reducing risk of morbidity and mortality; many include mandates about the provision of concussion education to youth athletes. However, there is limited evidence if educational materials provided under these typically vague mandates are in fact effective in changing…
Descriptors: Health Education, Head Injuries, Neurological Impairments, Instructional Materials
The Spectrum of Disease in Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy
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McKee, Ann C.; Stein, Thor D.; Nowinski, Christopher J.; Stern, Robert A.; Daneshvar, Daniel H.; Alvarez, Victor E.; Lee, Hyo-Soon; Hall, Garth; Wojtowicz, Sydney M.; Baugh, Christine M.; Riley, David O.; Kubilus, Caroline A.; Cormier, Kerry A.; Jacobs, Matthew A.; Martin, Brett R.; Abraham, Carmela R.; Ikezu, Tsuneya; Reichard, Robert Ross; Wolozin, Benjamin L.; Budson, Andrew E.; Goldstein, Lee E.; Kowall, Neil W.; Cantu, Robert C. – Brain, 2013
Chronic traumatic encephalopathy is a progressive tauopathy that occurs as a consequence of repetitive mild traumatic brain injury. We analysed post-mortem brains obtained from a cohort of 85 subjects with histories of repetitive mild traumatic brain injury and found evidence of chronic traumatic encephalopathy in 68 subjects: all males, ranging…
Descriptors: Neurological Impairments, Head Injuries, Chronic Illness, Brain